ICYMI: Reba McEntire as Colonel Sanders; no Super Bowl Clydesdales

In a week when #DoomsdayClock and #CrockPotIsInnocent became hot topics on Twitter, this also happened:

•If you had this in the office pool, you oughta be playing the lottery: The next Colonel Sanders will be ... Reba McEntire. She’ll be both the first musician and the first woman to play the founder of KFC, enhancing the Colonel’s white suit and black tie with some fringe on the back and a glittery shine — “a little bit of the country music flair,” she told the Associated Press.

•FedEx and Starbucks added their names to those companies that are giving workers pay raises and other benefits because of the new tax law. Others include Home Depot, Disney and Walmart.

•This just in: India has lots and lots of people. The Wall Street Journalreported that people at Google were stumped because so many smartphones in India were having trouble many mornings. Turns out lots of people — as in, millions and millions and millions of them — like to send “Good morning!” greetings, complete with images that all demand their piece of the bandwidth.

•For the first time since 2001, Budweiser’s Clydesdales won’t be in Super Bowl commercials. AdAgereported that Anheuser-Busch InBev will instead tout its water giveaway program, which drew a lot of attention because of disasters like the ones in Houston and Puerto Rico.

•A Missouri State University student who feared he had Tinder-swiped a potential sweetheart out of his life decided to email every Claudia on campus to find her. He had swiped left instead of right, accidentally getting rid of her profile, and all he knew was her first name and that she was also a Missouri State student. So he emailed the 22 Claudias on campus, offering to take the one that got away out for doughnuts. Freshman Claudia Alley got the email, knew it was about her and agreed to the date. And that’s how you turn d’oh into doughnuts.

Daily Briefing is compiled from San Francisco Chronicle staff and news services. See more items and links at www.sfgate.com. Twitter: @techchronicle